From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: hch@lst.de (Christoph Hellwig) Date: Wed, 9 May 2018 09:31:45 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 4/5] block: BLK_STS_NEXUS is a path failure In-Reply-To: <20180504112845.38820-5-hare@suse.de> References: <20180504112845.38820-1-hare@suse.de> <20180504112845.38820-5-hare@suse.de> Message-ID: <20180509073145.GC20363@lst.de> On Fri, May 04, 2018@01:28:44PM +0200, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > A block error of BLK_STS_NEXUS is equivalent to a path failure, > so blk_path_error() should reflect this. BLK_STS_NEXUS is the replacement of -EBADE, which in the old world order was labelled 'critical nexus"' and is claim to be used for reservation conflicts, in which case we should not rety on another path.